The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-08-25
SAYINGS BY BOB lNCERsoLl.
Extracts from m Address Made by Him
In n Lecture In Now York.

In lecture delivered in New York re
Gently, Col. Robert g. Ingcrsoll among
other things said:
If nobody has too much everybody
will have enough.
would like to sec this world so that a
man could die and not feel that he had
lott his wife and children prey to the
greed or aVarice or necessities Of man
kind.
There is something wrong in the sys-
tcm when idlcness is burdencd with
wealth and industry with famine.
Get out of your minds that old non
sense about mans free moral agency.
a man is no more responsible for his
character than for his height, or for his
acts than for his dreams Then YOU
will have charity for the whole human
raco.
Wealth Is NO crime, nor is poverty q
virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good-human happi-
ness.
To do right is the bud, blossom, and
fruit of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could be
happy while there was m unhappy be,
ing in the universe that he knew.
The poor imagine that the rich live in
PARADISE. l know that the most of them
live in a gildcd He'll.
NO man has the genius or the brain to
own So, ,0OO, 900. The money owns him.
He is tho key to q safe. Yet these men
go on accommodating. 1t is a sort of in.
sanity. Imagine mana good, intclli-
gent man-with 1000, 900 coats (laugh-
teri 5000, 900 or 5000, 900 hats TchccTsl,
q billion nccktics laughter and chccrs1,
lhen imagine him getting up at 4:3O
O'Clock III the morning and working hard
all day to get another neclte. GPrO-
longcd applause.
Great wealth is the mother of crime.
Thc gulf is growing wide between
Lazarus and Dives, only the two have
changed placcs--Diycs is in Abraham 8
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contempt for
the poor; the poor envy and hatred for
the rich. There must be some wav for
inc loving poor and the sympathetic rich
to get acquainted. If there is ANYTHING
that should bring mankind together it is
common belief, but in this Christian
country there is no welcome in the velvet
Tor the rags. | would think much of
any religion that would allow the rich
and the poor to clasp hands, if only for
one instant once q week.
All men arc not capable Of getting q
living now. Some are not cunninm
enough, not strong enough, not stingy
enough. %
Millions Of machines have been in
vented to save labor, but the laborcr
docs not own the machine. The ma
chine owns the laborcr.
No nor chpulI l,o
land that he does not use; but | woul1
not take an inch Of land from any one
without paying for it,
IL 1T were possible to bottle the air
thcrc would be n great American Air
Bottllng Association before sundown to-
morrow, and millions would be allowed
TO dc for want of breath if they were
unable to pay the monthly air bills.
would not only sec homes made free
from attachments for debt, but free from
taxation 80. Then we would have n
nation ana nation Of patriots.
Iherc is something about money that
dries up the affections. | suppose that
one reason of it is that the moment n
man gets any money there arc so many
trying to get it away from him tnat he
thihkS the whole race are his enemies.
don blame the rich, mind you; they
are arc inc natural products Of the system.
Blame the system.
~, The first great remedy is the ballot.
Inc poor arc in the majority. If the
law oPprcsscs them, it is their fault.
Thcy have followed the fife and drum of
SOME party No man should go with
party unless 1t Is going his way.
q A.ciYlllZcd man will never want to sell
thing for more than it is worth, nor
VIII he want to buy anything for less
than what II is worth.
am not afraid Of monopolirs. The
people will stand oppression to u certain
point and then the end will comG.--M
y. Sum-.